LFS Lesson Plan
Day #7
Windows operating system literacy
Unit EQ: How does a computer make a student or employee more productive?
LEQ: What is the difference between the "Operating System" and the other "Programs" on the computer?
Activating Strategies:
Have students start Microsoft Word. Do not tell them how. Ask about where the found the icon and how if it can be done redondently with other methods.
Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary:
Count off by three. Think pair share a description for an assigned menu item in Microsoft Word.
Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:*
Start Menu
what is available in the startmenu
control panel : access to the setup features of the operating system.
help - windows literacy support.
shortcuts
editing and organizing the startmenu
right and explore
Menu bar (Transferrable skills)
File : provides standard file management
items not available are gray or ghosted.
Edit : perform functions on selected information.
View : changes how the information is displayed on the screen.
Insert : places objects into your document. pictures, tables etc.
Format : helps you organize and change how data is displayed in your final product.
Tools : performs various processes on the data. Like spell check.
Window : organizes various windows that are open.
Help : the manual in searchable format.
Tool bar organizing (right click on tool bar.)
moving tool bars around
selecting tool bars to display
Graphic - user interface
Desktop - space you work on Shortcuts - Icons that take you to programs Start menu - get to program list Task bar - gray bar on bottom shows what is running. Quick launch holds shortcuts on taskbar System tray- shows things that run in background Operating System - software like Windows that helps computer communicate with you. Minimize - put on task bar Maximize - fill screen Resize - let me change size Help - lets you search for answers Multitask - use more than one program (alt-tab)
Summarizing Strategies:
Ticket out the door. Write an answer to the lesson essential question in your notebook.
Day #7
Windows operating system literacy
Have students start Microsoft Word. Do not tell them how. Ask about where the found the icon and how if it can be done redondently with other methods.
Count off by three. Think pair share a description for an assigned menu item in Microsoft Word.
- Start Menu
- what is available in the startmenu
- control panel : access to the setup features of the operating system.
- help - windows literacy support.
- shortcuts
- editing and organizing the startmenu
- right and explore
- Menu bar (Transferrable skills)
- File : provides standard file management
- items not available are gray or ghosted.
- Edit : perform functions on selected information.
- View : changes how the information is displayed on the screen.
- Insert : places objects into your document. pictures, tables etc.
- Format : helps you organize and change how data is displayed in your final product.
- Tools : performs various processes on the data. Like spell check.
- Window : organizes various windows that are open.
- Help : the manual in searchable format.
- Tool bar organizing (right click on tool bar.)
- moving tool bars around
- selecting tool bars to display
- Graphic - user interface
Desktop - space you work onShortcuts - Icons that take you to programs
Start menu - get to program list
Task bar - gray bar on bottom shows what is running.
Quick launch holds shortcuts on taskbar
System tray- shows things that run in background
Operating System - software like Windows that helps computer communicate with you.
Minimize - put on task bar
Maximize - fill screen
Resize - let me change size
Help - lets you search for answers
Multitask - use more than one program (alt-tab)
Ticket out the door. Write an answer to the lesson essential question in your notebook.